Coincidentally, he refereed the 3-0 home defeat by Leeds in November 2015 which Wagner watched from the directors’ box before taking charge of the team for Dean Hoyle.

In the 2016/17 Championship promotion season , Scott refereed both matches against Sheffield Wednesday – a 2-0 loss at Hillsborough in which Jack Payne was sent off and a 1-0 reversal at the John Smith’s.

Then last season, he refereed Town’s 3-0 defeat at Leicester City and the 5-0 thumping at Arsenal.

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So, perhaps, for those wanting a change of fate for Town under this particular official, it’s best to focus on those events at Elland Road towards the end of the 2015-16 campaign, when Wagner was starting to put things in place for that glorious promotion to follow.

Stuart Dallas had given Leeds a 22nd-minute lead, but Town responded with goals from Mark Hudson, just before half time, and a second-half trio from Harry Bunn (69 minutes), Karim Matmour (73) and Nahki Wells (77).